Force of nature

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

Having pushed MODERN NATURE as far out into the free-folk ether as they could go, Jack Cooper has brought it right back to first principles with The Heat Warps – an album of succinct and distinctly Beatlesque songcraft, recorded live with a classic four-piece band, that speaks directly to our turbulent times. “We’re not hiding behind anything,” the newly energised frontman tells Sam Richards

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